Improvement in dry-goods racks



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID KEISER, or READING, PENNsYLvixNIA.

IMPROVEMENT moRv-eooos RACKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 133,781, dated December 10, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID KEISER, of Reading, in the county of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Dry-Goods Rack, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 is a front view of two of my improved racks placed upon a counter, and part being broken away to show. the construction. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

My invention has for its object to improve the construction of my improved dry-goods rack for which Letters Patent No. 131,221 were granted to me September 10, 1872, so as to make it more convenient and satisfactory. in use while being morecapacious; and it consists in the combination of the detachable partitions or upper platforms with the pivoted platforms, standards, and detachable bent rods.

A represents a counter, to the forward part of which is attached a bar, B, and to the rear part of which is attached a bar, 0. D are the boards or platforms, the forward ends of which are pivoted to the bar 13, and their rear ends rest and slide upon the bar 0. The bar 0 is provided with a stop, E, at each end to prevent the free ends of the platforms D from sliding off said bar 0. To each of the platforms D are attached two pairs of standards, F G. The standards F of each pair are made of about twice the length of the other standards G. Upon the upper ends of the short standards G, and at a corresponding height upon the long standards F, are formed shoulders to receive and support the upper platforms or partitions H, the upper parts of said standards being turned down or made smaller. I are rods bent twice at right angles, and made with arms of unequal length, so that the ends of the long arms may enter holes in the upper ends of the short standards G, and the ends of the short arms of said rods may enter holes in the ends of the long standards F.

By this construction, by removing the rods I the upper platforms or partitions H may be lifted ofi the standards F G, or raised to any desired height above the upper ends of the short standards G, where they will'be supported by the said standards F. In the free ends of the platforms D, and in the correspondiu g ends of the partitions H, are formed holes to receive stops J, against which the end of the lowest piece of goods rests, so that it will not slip upon the said platformor partition while drawing out a piece above and near to it.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Pat ent- The combination of the detachable partitions or upper platforms H with the pivoted platforms D, standards F G, and detachable bent rods I, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

- DAVID KEISER.

Witnesses GEO. W. FRANTZ, ABNER S. KEIsER. 

